See also: Erythrée

French edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin erythraeus, as it was used in Erythraeum mare (the Erythraean Sea), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, red). The second sense is a semantic loan from Italian l'Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (Italian Eritrea, literally the Erythraean colony).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /e.ʁi.tʁe/
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Proper noun edit

l’Érythrée f

  1. (obsolete or historical) Ellipsis of la mer Érythrée (the Erythraean Sea).
    • 1730, Traitez géographiques et historiques[1], pages 40–41:
      En second lieu, si l’on dit que les Tyriens se servirent du même expédient dont commença à user Cléopatre à la Bataille d’Actium, & que ces Vaisseaux furent transportez à force de Bras, & d’Argent, de la mer Mediterranée dans l’Erythrée, l’intervalle de l’une à l’autre n’étant que de trois cens stades; la chose ne paroîtra pas non plus incroyable.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1886, Géographie de Strabon[2], pages 95–96:
      [...] il se demande [...] comment il a pu se faire au contraire que l’Érythrée ait conservé son niveau sans baisser.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. Eritrea (a country in East Africa, on the Red Sea) [from 20th c.]

Usage notes edit

  • In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Haitian Creole: Eritre
  • Persian: اریتره (eritre)
  • Turkish: Eritre

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